Product : Fedora Core 4Name : tarVersion : 1.15.1 Release : 8.FC4 Summary : A GNU file archiving program.Description :The GNU tar program saves many files together in one archive and canrestore individual files (or all of the files) from that archive. Tarcan also be used to add supplemental files to an archive and to updateor list files in the archive. Tar includes multivolume support,automatic archive compression/decompression, the ability to performremote archives, and the ability to perform incremental and fullbackups.

If you want to use tar for remote backups, you also need to installthe rmt package.